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Flavius, it is difficult to answer your question because of the shortage of testing capability.

Consider this Table at WaPo comparing the increase of deaths in each State to the increase in the number of confirmed cases. Note the States where the death numbers are going up sharply while their increase of confirmed cases is small.
You can't confirm what you cannot test.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Rep. Nunes saying it was “overkill” to close Calif. schools for year: “We’ll continue to listen to the experts and try to avoid some elected officials that frankly may not have the benefit of some of the insight that many of us do.” https://t.co/A2bAolPPGKpic.twitter.com/SnEj2HyBGj

BREAKING NEWS: California currently is not seeing the double digit increases that were predicted in COVID 19 cases. 15865 infected, 2.1% increase day to day in ICU patients to 1108 patients statewide, per Gov Newsom

.....The biggest mistake any [of] us can make in these situations is to misinform, particularly when we’re requiring people to make sacrifices and take actions that might not be their natural inclination," Obama said during a virtual meeting organized by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The meeting included “participants from more than 300 cities around the world, including mayors, local leaders, and members of response teams,” according to a statement from the organization. Obama also called on the leaders to build a reliable team of experts while addressing the pandemic.“The more smart people you have around you, and the less embarrassed you are to ask questions, the better your response is going to be,”....

The League of City States is more like the Houses governed by the Emperor {through some kind of Magna Carta} than the Guild. The Guild has leverage over the Emperor (because they control shipping in the Hoffa style) but loses much of it when that is revealed (or announced) to the Houses. The Guild is more like moneyed interests whose control is limited by how much forward they can see and how little their influence is noticed by others. They have a lot of dough to throw this way or that but all such instruments have a horizon.

Trump is not Baron Harkonnen. He is the cousin, Beast Rabban.
The Baron is offstage at present.

Nothing like a discussion of Hanseatic rules and customs to set a plague right and in proper perspective. Ever since the Germans gave up the corridor, the Balts have been running wild, showing no self-control, and we now how livid that makes JR.

I cede to your clearly superior knowledge, while offering this picture is support of the proposition that a few of those antigravity thingees that the Baron used to ameliorate his obscene obesity would come in hella handy for El Presidente...

We have accelerated and expanded production of our investigational COVID-19 treatment and continue to increase supply. Hear from our Chairman & CEO on our manufacturing progress and intent to donate supply following potential regulatory authorizations: https://t.co/ZFjeS24XXv. pic.twitter.com/XmDTel51Es

Folks, the government -- state or local -- can't order the economy to re-open. You have to convince people it's safe for them or their families. This is the missing element in this debate about the models. My column: https://t.co/15NciYaIm8

and see Obama a couple posts above: "The biggest mistake any [of] us can make in these situations is to misinform, particularly when we’re requiring people to make sacrifices and take actions that might not be their natural inclination,"

An example of strong central federal rule not necessarily being the answer with this crisis:

Scene outside a Moscow hospital earlier. The queues of ambulances reportedly the result a logistical error — patients sent when there weren’t actually the beds available. But mayor’s office themselves admit hospitals in capital working near capacity. pic.twitter.com/GlddUm2OAr

Dean and five other Pennsylvania members of Congress, including Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, signed a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar asking him to reverse the decision.

Good workaround. Now Congress needs to develop testing beyond the FEMA operation.

edit to add: now please try to squeeze in some time to keep the USPS from totally crashing and burning tomorrow. I heard personal tales: things like paychecks and checks for health insurance premiums are disappearing across the country. I'm not talking their budget, I'm talking major short staff. Yeah it's starting in NYC, but y'all gonna get it too when the rest of em start calling in sick. You know what they do when they are overwhelmed: stash it in the back room never to be found again....

Yeah, I have always been attuned to the culture of delivery in all its manifestations and the scene here in Brooklyn is showing a lot of stress for the USPS workers. They are doing their jobs while also saying aloud how it is an unsustainable situation.

And I don't mean that in some metaphorical sense. I am talking town crier.

What remains unclear is whether this emerging plan can succeed without the backing of the federal government. Some states such as Massachusetts and Utah are already trying to implement parts of it. In the absence of federal leadership — as happened last month with stay-at-home orders — other states may watch and follow suit. But without substantial federal funding, states’ efforts will only go so far.

The national guard isn't a standing army that gets paid a weekly/monthly/yearly salary. They get paid for 2 weeks of training a year and one weekend a month. If they are called up for additional duty they get paid for the additional time. It's not free.

Next week, @USTreasury and #IRS will launch the Get My Payment web app where filers can enter bank account information & check the status of their payment to get their money fast! https://t.co/VCBpGD8KXv

rut roh. It do look like the less populated red states are at a disadvantage, no? And big blue states are still playing "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." I don't want to gloat

Did watch Cuomo press conference today and noted he said every hospital adminstrator that asked for something now has what they need. And that there are actually open beds in places and that we haven't had to use the Javits Center or any field hospitals. I don't know if he was lying Trump style, of course. Several times in the past I heard him promise he is going to help in kind all those other Gov's and others he begged help from. We will start seeing soon if he will keep that promise.

I don't take any pleasure in the board game that has been made of it.
I have family in Mississippi and Louisiana.

If there was a Federal response, oh wait, what am I saying?

We have got to stop comparing the frantic effort to deal with stuff in a monolithic fashion. There are Federal efforts that are very helpful, done by people who understand and live by a code of public service.

There are political agents who look at Government as some kind of game player app.

If it was easy to identify one element against another, it would have been done before.

just a guy I know nothing about except that he often makes good points, making a good point on twitter on topic:

It is actually wild to me that we’re not seeing a frantic stampede of parties and politicians to the solidaristic center. Who wants to govern for the next decade, guys? Ditch ID politics and economic sadism, and listen, as the kids say, to ballot counter go brrrrrrrrr

When I was a kid I heard the Congressmen turned the pages over. Are they handled digitally now? There's something to say for the oral tradition... then again, I seem to recall one of the Republican speakers was involved, don't know if he was at the head.

Decisions about economic and health tradeoffs can be informed by experts but in a democratic society the decisions will be made by the public (namely their representatives in state and local government). There aren't objective decisions to be made about this, a public choice.

10:00 PM - 15 Apr 2020

[For some reason he has a lock on this tweet where one cannot get a link or embed code--something I've never seen before. Right now it's at the top of his feed, so I link to his feed.]

Of course this is the traditional question about how to handle "authoritarian" requirements like a executing a major war or addressing a major public health crisis in democracies, the stuff of a lot of dystopian fiction even when the top leader is rational and cares about his citizens.

just ran across these two others taking that general topic way off in another direction, maybe a fun diversion for you:

Let’s be realistic. Lenin would already have a large cache of weapons, would be busy infiltrating the military, and would be keeping a running list of which DSA members would be first to die when he seized power https://t.co/Dg7cyPkydZ

Lenin would change his name to Putin, and he'd be actively compromising politicians and media figures so he wouldn't have to do a thing. Oh wait, that already happened. We never did interview Butina or Kilimnik or Deripaska. We are such suckers. Now Trump's helping arrange an oil cartel for Vlad and MBS so the US makes less oil money - makes sense, right?

this posting is not necessarily endorsement of everything therein, just sharing thought provocation I found on topic:

"Our nation and our civilization were built on production, on building. Our forefathers built roads and trains, farms and factories, then the computer, the microchip, the smartphone, and uncounted thousands of other things that we now take for granted..."https://t.co/6nQUcVJwJI

I thought at least once was the best most important thing Elon Musk had done was pop-up automated Gigafactories - to make whatever. There likely is hype and exaggeration, but then there was a pop-up hospital the Chinese built. It leaked, it was unsanitary, it was awful, but it was a great first try. The Indians did another soon after, perhaps a bit better. Elin's Hyperloop is being attempted in Europe. It may not be exactly what he wrote, but the certainty that city subways require huge amounts of city land, a half a trillion in expense, 1 1/2 decades to build, is giving way as our only option, that maybe we can be fleeter of foot and build something our British brethren of the early 1800s *didn't* envision and largely do already. Our educational system is still almost wholly based on early dindustrial age needs and methods and goals. WaitButHow notes cavemen dropped here would be amazed by everything except our slow same way of speaking and communicating knowledge - where are the Star Trek beams of person-to-person info at 10x our speaking or reading efficiency? Someone on LinkedIn bemoaning our "socialism" with the bailouts, as if the last century's concerns about socialism wasn the killing and imprisoning people in the name of helping them, and that socialism didn't seem to offer an actual mechanism for increased buy-in and productivity and happiness even as the free stuff rolled in - that we needed the pain to move forward in that BF Skinner thinking. Bucky Fuller noted web often progress at 90 degrees to our goals, such as our internet coming out of military efforts rather than "let's build a really cool way for people to communicate" - it was more to help kill others and keep them from killing ourselves. I pointed out how little money in effect could subsidize $20k for every new car sold to make it electric, to actually make Al Gore's promise happen 25 years later, and we just spewed *much more* money out the window in some vast semi-bailout/semi-highway robbery that doesn't address global warming at all. Oops, more belt tightening and polar bear killing for another generation? Yes, will it become t endy on LinkedIn to actually do business to help people and society, rather than simply "monetizing" everything, as if that were the goal?

The irreplaceability of business was largely cemented in the 90s when even construction workers would check their portfolio perfoemance and pay down a mortgage.. Since then the right has done it's best to denigrate business by highlighting it's excesses, such as stealing thousands' homes through predatory housing practices, now stealing the data of millions and using it against them. Is it possible for the right to advocate business in a sustainable legal fashion, or is "pump and dump" as the only acceptable mode, with concurrent pain for the supposed group they wanted to recruit? If you drown government services (not coffers) in a bathtub and leave Jack the Rippers riving about, well, why even talk about a modern society? It's just the roving packs of bandits stage somewhere back in Europe 1100, pre-Enlightenment.

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